As our election blog already posted, Hillary Clinton is going to be on campus tomorrow for what the press release called, a “major policy address.”

If you want to see her speech live and raw without any of the commentary you get from CNN or the major networks. Just visit dailypennsylvanian.com/live around 10am tomorrow when her speech is scheduled to start.

Or just check back later in the day to see the footage at whatever time is convenient to you.

If you’re interested in how we’re able to stream live video, we’re using a service called USTREAM.TV which is dead simple to set up. All you have to do is register an account and click broadcast and it will detect any camera attached to your computer and let you start streaming. Sure the quality might not be as good as you get with a satellite truck, but for $165,000 less, it’s quite a deal!

Edit: 2:06am, March 26, 2008

Throughout the stream, the number of viewers fluctuated between 80 and 85, this with relatively light promotion. A box on the bottom line of the print newspaper and a box at the top of the web layout when the stream went live. Quality of the video wasn’t so great though. You can see the recorded version from ustream here if you’re interested. http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/live/

The biggest issue was how laggy the connection became, stopping quite frequently to buffer. With the number of viewers we had, while the audio stayed relatively clear, the video got very jerky, sometimes freezing up for seconds at a time before resuming. So while ustream seems to work great, I’m not sure how scalable it’ll be for larger broadcasts and bigger papers.

After finishing the stream, I downloaded the FLV from their server and easily integrated it into our own system.

All in all, I’m chalking this one up as a success.

Tags: campaign, clinton, hillary, live, penn, philadelphia, video

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